The Problem Of House Flies Essay

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Introduction

Purpose - This technical report is to show how the engineering process can be used to help solve the problem of house-flies entering houses. The report will also include factors that might have a direct relationship with the problem.

Background - House-flies also known as the Musca Domistica (Malik, Singh, Satya, 2007) are becoming more of a problem every summer as they are attracted to decaying matter and high temperatures speed the decomposition process up significantly. This makes houses ideal for flies to eat, breed and spread dangerous diseases such as dysentery and cholera (Kaine, n.d).

Scope - This report will focus on technical information such as 3 steps from the engineering process. These steps will be step (2) define success, will involve looking into requirements and issues …show more content…

This method must be available to anyone who needs it, so it must be simple, affordable and sellable (even possibly make-able). Now most importantly the method must define success for the customer. This will include being family friendly, having no chemicals, long lasting, and barely noticeable. The method will be successful if the customer thinks it is successful.

Step (3) Find solutions

Solution (one) - An obvious solution to this will be closing doors and windows, even putting up fly screens, however this would be annoying and very noticeable on a daily basis.

Solution (two) - Another solution would be having sticky fly traps around the house but this would involve having flies inside the house to begin with. Even if the flies are caught quickly using this method they can still do significant damage in a short time.

Solution (three) - Since flies are attracted to strong decaying smells this should make it easy to attract flies to a bait station outside of a house. The problem is how to catch the flies once they have been attracted to the

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